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Quite a lot of my in-box at IBM is from folks asking "Can the CICS Explorer do X for me?". A fair amount of the time I'm able to say "Yes it can my friend - here's the bit of the doc and a scren shot", after which I usually buy myself a well earned lattee and wait for the "Thank you Joe - you're so awesome" e-mail reply. It's a dream job. Cue the picture of me being helpful to users. However... there are times when I have to reply with "Sorry my friend - the CICS Explorer can't do what you're asking".... [More]

This blog entry talks about how to install MQ Explorer 7.1 into CICS Explorer 1.1. Before MQ Explorer 7.1 the solution was a bit tricky, and involved either downloading an seemingly unnecessary Eclipse environment, as well as copying files between directories on disk. We've made it much better though with MQ Explorer 7.1, so put the kettle on and hopefully it'll be ready for a nice cup of tea by the time you've finished reading this and got it all working !. For those of you who have tried to get the MQ Explorer and CICS Explorer working... [More]

This blog entry is about how to surface the full CICS Explorer experience inside RD/z 8.0.3. You can do this by adding the line -Dcom.ibm.cics.explorer.sm.ui.full.enable=true to the eclipse.ini file used to launch RD/z, making sure it's after the -vmargs line. If you're using a language other than English, Simplified Chinese, or Japanese, the extra bits that you surfaced such as CICS definitions are not going to be translated as we only supply three languages (i.e. not German, French, etc...) This was going to be my shortest ever blog... [More]

IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer was made generally available last week. It's very cool, and there is a neat neat video that show the IMS team talking out quite how cool it is. There's another video that is more a tutorial. Together it's all so cool you'd be forgiven for thinking that IMS have started to make Ice Cream sodas. Why am I telling you this ? If you watched the videos, or if you are looking at the screen shot below, you'll notice that the the IMS Explorer is based on the Eclipse framework, and it includes a perspective called... [More]

CICS Explorer not only lets you connect to CICS regions, and z/OS through FTP, but it also is a platform for installing plugins for other tools. This blog entry shows how to get each of the plugins on the IBM CICS Explorer download site installed inside the CICS Explorer 1.1 - once you've done this you can get a perspective bar with lots of cool things running together. First thing is to know where to get the plugins from - if you follow the link from ibm.com/cics/explorer that lets you go to the downloads page, you will see a number... [More]

The CICS Explorer is two years old – at IBM we first released it in support pac form on November 5 th 2008 – and between now and then we’ve done a bunch of cool stuff with it. This blog is about a new perspective called System z.OS that we added to the 1.0.1 release that we released on September 24 th 2010 . The perspective has three new views on it – Data Sets, z/OS UNIX File System, and Jobs. Each of these do pretty much what you’d expect them to do from their name. Data Sets lets you view data sets – you can filter by high level... [More]